About "a lot of the people with the real information just don't speak those languages"... if you go through threads with 'real information' you will find easily people whose native langauge is German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian... To me the question is whether those guys would be happy following more or less those forums in their language. What if there would be a light process e.g. needs to be requested by nn maemo.org users, with n of them having at least nnn posts/karma. I mean, "being open to normal users" also has an implicit multilingual approach. Expecting that developers manage some English is OK-ish (even if this is more true for reading than writing) but making the same assumption about users... Another way will to look at it is: forums elsewhere will happen anyway so breeding them will help more or less the Maemo community?